‘The Forever War’ (1974) by Joe Halderman

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The Forever War (Wikimedia)

“Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of it.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

Many of the authors from the Golden Age of science fiction served in the Armed Forces or the…